Greetings, I've recently loaded Mandrake 9.0 on to a Dell Latitude C400. This laptop has the evil BIOS that doesn't allocate more than 1 MB of video ram, thus my Mandrake experience is limited to 8 bits at 1024x768 or 16 bits at 640x480.
There is now an XFree86 patch to 4.2.0 that'll work around this problem. I was hoping it might have been compiled into 9.0, but no such luck. In other areas, 9.0 is feeling really solid, so I think I'll take the time and effort to whip up a new XFree86 according to the instructions at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html or http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html Has anyone else already done this? Might there be a cooker version of XFree86 with this patch already built? Thanks, John --
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